Good game. Well polished and loved the juiciness of the vfx!
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Last Stand at the North Pole's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Gameplay | #152 | 2.925 | 3.700 |
| Graphics | #210 | 3.004 | 3.800 |
| Audio | #255 | 2.688 | 3.400 |
| Overall | #289 | 2.609 | 3.300 |
| Theme interpretation | #366 | 2.293 | 2.900 |
| Innovation | #387 | 1.976 | 2.500 |
Ranked from 10 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
GitHub repository URL
https://github.com/QuinnCG/LastStandAtTheNorthPole
Game description
An infinite wave-based shooter set in the North Pole
Theme interpretation
You fight wave after wave of enemies
Comments

I really enjoyed this entry. The art style was great, especially loved the glowing confetti gun (though it got extremely hectic visually, it looked extremely pretty). The music was just the right mix of foreboding and arcadey, punctuated with great sound effects. The toy soldiers noise was great.
The gameplay was very polished and smooth. I especially loved that dashing reloads your gun. I don’t think I’ve seen that before, but it felt very smooth. The upgrade system got a little bit samey, I would have liked more interesting upgrades, and I kept getting repeats of the dash length / invincible dash mechanic. But overall felt great, and I liked the variety of the different weapons. The confetti cannon was flat out broken though, I only lost because I wanted to test the final weapon I hadn’t tried for review purposes, I feel like i could hold off death indefinitely with the confetti gun :P
Also I wanted to mention there are a lot of little juicy effects, like the wave number tweening in for example, that made the game feel very polished.
Overall a great entry and I had a lot of fun with it. Great work!
My buddy, this game is really fun. You've done a great job making it enjoyable to play. The effects are nice, the graphics are good, and the gameplay is excellent. However, I ran into a problem while playing. It says there are 11 enemies left, but even though I explored, I couldn't see any enemies. Also, you could add a menu.
Anyway, congratulations on finishing it on time. Feel free to take a look at my game too. :)
Pretty fun game! The graphics were pretty good, shooting felt pretty satisfying, and i really liked the enemy variety. The enemies in particular inspire me for some stuff I want to do a separate project. I agree with jamtonyx on the dash distance upgrade since i felt like i was being flung around a lot, and I felt like the little packages gun (I forget the proper name now) feels pretty underpowered for what it's supposed to be since it would only damage a single enemy. Overall tho you did pretty good!
Really cool, loved it all around! loved the vfx's, graphics and art style in general and gameplay was really fun!
Cool stuff! I really like the visuals and pixelart and the different weapons are really cool. One critique is the lack of unique upgrades, especially in a roguelike where options are the highlight. I also ended up disliking the dash distance since it'd very often displace me too much. Otherwise it's a very fun game and I enjoyed running through it!





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